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Allah directs us to ask Him to guide us to the siraat al-Mustaqim. Note, that immediate after a declaration of seeking help from Allah alone, we are to seek help in guidance, another reminder of the master-slave relationship. We could have asked for help in a number of good things: forigveness, rizq, easy life, a ton of other things, but guidance is the most valuable of them all, and with guidance everything else is solved. Also, look at the example of Musa, alayhi as- Salam, and Pharoah; Ibrahim, alayhi as-Salam against his people; Muhammad salla Allahu alayhi wasallam, versus the ‘rich’ and ‘powerful’ of his community, real success was with the ones who were rightly guided, regardless of the worldly false standards of a ‘good-life’.

In reality, the first ayah should suffice for us to declare our enslavement to Allah, Who is the Rabb, the Master. If that is not enough, then He is the extremely Merciful, who is being merciful to us right now, and His Mercy is always there for the believers but can be taken away from us if He wills, and if that is not enough, then the fact that He is the King and the Owner of the day of Judgement, when there will be no king or owner of anything, except Him. And this is the thought-process of the believer…